Hourly Comic Day

Hello all, so on Thursday I made the last minute decision to join in with Hourly Comic Day instead of calling in for supply work. So in order to justify this guys, we have to make sure this makes £130 worth of social media impact. Can we quantify that? Cool. Thank you to Andy Oliver for alerting me to the day being the day, cos I always miss these kinds of thing. Guys I guess that's what it means to be part of a (Broken Frontier) family and be looked out for and stuff. Tears. Heart thump. 

The idea is you draw all day about what you're doing, like a visual diary. 

I literally do not have time to scan all of these pages in, guys the scanner is in a different room to the TV, you understand.

I did convert the photos to greyscale though so they aren't so distractingly subtly different shades of bluey or orangey not white on account of having been taken in different places and at different times of day. Let's all take a moment to appreciate the infinite human capacity to process colour and translate completely different actual visual information into understanding consistent with the complex memory symbols in our heads. Which I think is why children/non artists can fairly accurately copy the tones from a photo of a face in shadow and still leave those eyeballs creepy ice white, or somehow fail to notice that they haven't coloured in the holes inside the letters of a text piece even though they are literally the only uncoloured thing on the whole page. 

I digress. 

Anyway you can read all about my day here super easily. At the bottom I'm going to link to some other people's awesome hourly comics. 

I feel a bit cheeky that clearly some of this is more like hourly illustration or hourly sketchbook which might cast doubt on my comic chops. But what is the medium if not endlessly flexible? 

So that was my day. 

Sorry for any bits where you couldn't read my writing. 

If you want to see more of my actual comicy comics work I recently updated the comics page on my website, it has pages from the 3point52billion/Biscuits (assorted) project you won't have seen. 

These were some of my other favourite #hourlycomicdays that other people did that I saw.

I love how they are all so different. 

Composing this list was definitely more laborious than it should have been. You have to come out of the picture viewer to click on the links to the twitter. 

Ugh formatting whatever. 

I'm not doing it again. 

@AnnaLandin

@beemure

@davevaleza

@emmelinedraws

@fletcharrow_

@hamishsteele

@aoife_duffy_

@hirosemaryhello

@careydraws

@jabberworks

@JAM_WAH

@melgillman

@KitDraws

@Lizzlizz

@neilslorance

@pamwishbow

@PeopleIKnow

@playground_park

@rachael_

@roystoncartoons

@joedecie

@mockduck

@iliadtea

I hope nobody minds me sharing, 

it's a weird territory of self exposure and joy I'm trying to not think about. 

Winners, and celebrity dinners.

Winners of my website launch commission give-away are as follows:

Prize for most interesting sounding commission: 

Karen Kelleher requesting a Granny (who is an international spy) skateboarding with her pet Jack Russells,  Charlie and Benny down a London high street.

Randomly selected prize:

Andrew Smith

we will have to see what Andy comes up with for me to draw

watch the space of here

Bonus bumf and promo package winners:

Kirsty Usher

Meike B

I will be in touch with these lovely people individually for details.

Thank you to everyone who took part in the competition across all of the platforms of the media of social. It took a little detective work to get the list together but I am 99% sure I got you all on the list. 

A few people have asked me about the celebrity dinner party illustration I posted in the competition post, so I thought I'd expound on it here as a post-launch treat. 

I am actually really bad at those kinds of games with open ended questions, what films would you take to a dessert island? (to watch while you eat dessert) if you could use one pen for the rest of your life what would it be? (a clearly inhumane restriction) and the classic what people alive or dead would you have round for dinner? 

Give me a kiss, marry kill any day, something with some concrete options. 

But I decided to do this one anyway because I'd been looking for an excuse to add colour and a bit of collage to my Real TV Wisdom style of line drawing for a portfolio piece to show off that I can do celebrity likenesses actually. 

So this is who I thought I would like to have round for dinner (from left to right)

Lady Gaga

because I think she would get the party started, and wear something excellent.

Sir David Attenborough 

because his voice and demeanour would put everyone at ease and encourage them to relax and let out their animal natures. Or something.

Will.i.am

because he would make really good jokes with people's names and raise the profile of my dinner party on social media.

Grayson Perry

because he could give Gaga a run for her money with his outfit, and wouldn't pull any punches with his philosophical banter.

Monica Galetti 

because I love her face. Although I am now thinking that this could be bad because she would be eating my food and I don't think it would be good enough. 

And Tina Fey

to make fun of everyone else. And because in my head she is basically Liz Lemon I think she would not judge my food so that might counteract Monica's high standards.

They are all basically just celebrities that I would like to hang out with in real life. Also that I wanted to draw. 

I'm not going to ask you to tell me who you would have round for dinner, because I think that is cruel. 

But out of these six people that I chose, who would you most like to...

a) share a two bed flat in Crouch End with?

b) have to plan and execute a small scale invasion with?

c) have a miniature version of as a pet that could live in your room?

d) kiss, marry and kill?

e) go to a theme park with?

f) sit in a waiting room with for half a hour, but not be entirely sure it was them or have the courage to speak to them?

answers on a postcard or in the comments please. 

while I do spend sleepless nights regretting how little I managed to cash in on the put a bird on it trend,

(it is now, apparently too late. I still like birds tho. I liked them before it was cool)

I feel secure in my appropriate and even philanthropic handling of put a moustache on itness.

mostly I put moustaches on people. for Gallery of Mo on the internet and at 2 awesome gala parties. Live portraits are one of my all time favourite things to do, I really should investigate how you get a license to do this on the streets for tourists. Although I might have some anger management issues if anyone asks me to do a caricature. 

here are some photos, all taken by Gallery of Mo photographers, of some of my favourite moustache portraits done at the second of these parties. There was a lot of tweed and cowboy in evidence.

here's me drawing

and here's the drawing

here's the beautiful Jenmon and partner

this was my favourite drawing I did on the night

subtle skills of moustache representation were required

and not so subtle 

to my right here you can see the amazing Cliodhna Ztoical of Irish Comic Superstar fame, she was FAST

      but not as fast on the draw as I'm sure these three amigos were, after that quantity of charity beer

After many hours meeting and drawing moustachioed gentlemen, and adding moustaches for the (mostly) unmoustached ladies, I began to see moustaches everywhere and was confused by the hairless lips I saw in the street on my way home.

I feel so proud to have been a part of such a great project, (I already wrote about it some here) bringing together art, charity and comedy in such a great way and contributing to the raising of now over £11k! 

You still have a little time to get yourself a movember portrait from an array of awesome artists over on the Gallery of Mo website too.

So now all I need to do is actually cash in on the trend in a, you know, less selfless way